This instrument declares that the arrangement between the Governments of Australia and the Democratic Republic of East timor concerning the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes is an Article 11 arrangement for the purposes of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

Administered by: Environment and Energy

Exempt from sunsetting by the Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015 s11 item 01

I, DAVID ALISTAIR KEMP, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, being satisfied that the arrangement between the Governments of Australia and the Democratic Republic of East Timor concerning the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes, constituted by an exchange of notes of 31 October 2002 and 4 November 2002, is an agreement or arrangement of a kind mentioned in Article 11 of the Basel Convention, declare, under subsection 4C(1) of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989, that the arrangement is an Article 11 arrangement for the purposes of that Act.